From: "Jared Still" <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx>

To: "Thomas A. La Porte" <tlaporte@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 14:45:30 -0700

Would be sweet if linux actually knew how to properly account for its
memory.

Jared

On 10/2/06, Thomas A. La Porte <tlaporte@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Isn't the overage related to shared memory?

I.e. the RSS for any one process includes *all* of the shared
memory used by that process. And so when four processes share a
1GB memory segment, the sum of RSS == 4GB, while physical memory
used is actually only 1GB?